Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Marsh King's Daughter, part 6, sentence 78

The storks were gone; not a guest could be seen; no bridegroom--all in those few short moments seemed to have died.

Who acts: storks, all · What happens: be, not see, seem, die · To what, where: guest

This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, The Marsh King's Daughter, part 6. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (storks, all), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

Parsed by Mova, not checked by a teacher. This tree is Mova's own parse (the en model, on the CPU, when the site is built); it may be wrong.

The tree

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 storks	det
2	storks	stork	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 gone	nsubj
3	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 gone	cop
4	gone	gone	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
5	;	;	PUNCT	_	11 seen	punct
6	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	11 seen	advmod
7	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	8 guest	det
8	guest	guest	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 seen	nsubj:pass
9	could	could	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	11 seen	aux
10	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	11 seen	aux:pass
11	seen	see	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	4 gone	parataxis
12	;	;	PUNCT	_	14 bridegroom	punct
13	no	no	DET	PronType=Neg	14 bridegroom	det
14	bridegroom	bridegroom	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 gone	conj
15	--	--	PUNCT	_	22 seemed	punct
16	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	22 seemed	nsubj
17	in	in	ADP	_	21 moments	case
18	those	that	DET	Number=Plur PronType=Dem	21 moments	det
19	few	few	ADJ	Degree=Pos	21 moments	amod
20	short	short	ADJ	Degree=Pos	21 moments	amod
21	moments	moment	NOUN	Number=Plur	16 all	nmod
22	seemed	seem	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 gone	parataxis
23	to	to	PART	_	25 died	mark
24	have	have	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	25 died	aux
25	died	die	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	22 seemed	xcomp
26	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 gone	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	is	past	the storks		gone property	tree rules
2	not see	could · passive		a guest		vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Stimulus
3	seem	past	all			vn seem-109-1-1-1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Theme clause=Attribute
4	die	to-infinitive · perfect	all not said here			vn calibratable_cos-45.6.1 «NP.attribute V»: agent=Attribute

One row per clause the reader finds. «not said here»: a role filled from the clause above. «roles by»: a VerbNet class and frame when one fits the verb, else the reader's rules on the tree.

Text: «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, Project Gutenberg book 27200 (public domain in the USA). Tree: Mova's own parse, Elamur Cosmic License. Frames: Mova's frames reader (prag), the chapter read in order.

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